shred

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  1. noun A long irregular strip that is cut or torn off.
  2. noun A small amount; a particle: not a shred of evidence.
  3. transitive verb To cut or tear into shreds.

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  • It was the merest shred, and if the sun had not shone directly on it, she would have passed it by. —  The Silent Pool - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 25
  • It's become not only a day to shred, but also a great source of marketing for skate retailers everywhere. —  Transworld Business
  • Guitar Hero prowess with a Guitar Hero shred-off, see-and-be-seen with celebrity VIP guests and more. —  EclipseMagazine
  • It has to, the number of hours I spend trolling the internet for a shred of news is getting out of hand.
  • "Sounding Jerusalem" and "Break the Fangs of the Wicked" find the guitarists playing in a style that has more in common with the aforementioned golden days of shred-guitar than they do with anything else. —  All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
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scrap ·  vestige ·  bit ·  rag ·  wisp ·  char ·  remnant ·  semblance ·  fragment ·  tattered ·  strip ·  splinter

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shred:   shredded ·  shreds ·  shredding
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English shrede, from Old English scrēade.

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  1. Early modern English also shread; from Middle English shreden, schreden (preterit shred, schred, schredde, past participle schred, schrede), from Anglo-Saxon screádian (preterit *screádode) (in comp. be-screádian), orig. strong, *screádan (preterit *screód), cut up, shred (later screádung, shredding, and screáde, a shred), =OFries, skrēda =Middle Dutch schrooden, schrooijen, shred, clip, =Middle Low German schrōden, schrāden, scrōden =Old High German scrōtan, Middle High German schrōten, hew, cut, lop,G. schroten, cut, saw, gnaw, nibble, bruise, grind, =Danish skraae, cut, lop; not recorded in Gothic (Moesogothic) Hence shred, n., screed, and ult. shroud, scroll, scrow. Cf. Anglo-Saxon scrudnian, Old High German scrotōn, investigate, Latin scrutari, investigate: see scrutiny.
  2. Also screed, an unassibilated form, known chiefly in a differentiated sense; from Middle English shrede, schrede, schread, from Anglo-Saxon screáde, a piece, strip, shred, =OFries. skred, schred =Middle Dutch schroode =Middle Low German schrōde, schrāde, a piece cut off, =Old High German scrōt, a cut, Middle High German schrōt, a cut, stroke, wound, a piece cut or sawed off, German schrot, a piece, shred, block, =Icelandic skrjōdhr, a shred, =Danish skrot., rubbish; from the (orig. strong) verb: see shred, v. Shred also appears in the forms screed and scrow, the latter from Low German through Old French: see screed, scrow, scroll.
 

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